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    # 1. What year was the Round Top, Bethlehem Lutheran Church dedicated?

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    # 2. What year was Round Top incorporated
    to be a city?

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    # 3. What year was the Round Top, African American Concord Missionary Baptist Church founded?

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    # 4. How many acres make up the town of Round Top?

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    # 5. What year did the Round Top fourth of July parade start?

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    # 6. How many stagecoach stations were close to ​Round Top?

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The Texas provisional government was set up by Texans as the governing body in Texas from November 15, 1835, until March 1, 1836.

    # 7. Who was the first "Postmaster General "of the Texas Provisional Government?

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    # 8. What year was the Round Top Rifle Association Formed? 

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# 9. How much did it cost to build the Round Top, Bethlehem Lutheran Church in 1866?

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    # 10. When was Texas  an independent sovereign country ?

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# 11. What year did Texas first become a state in the
United States?

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# 12. What year did Round Top have its largest population?

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Traugott Wandke, Texas' first known pipe organ builder, built seven organs before he died in 1870. His largest organ was donated to the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Round Top, Texas. Built of native cedar, this remarkable instrument, yet today, serves the congregation with its melodious strains.

# 13. How long did it take to build the pipe organ in the Round Top, Bethlehem Lutheran Church?

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    # 14 What two Indian Tribes lived in the Round Top area?

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Examples of phone cranks to call someone: 3 seconds of cranking is a long turn. 1 second of cranking is a short turn.

Willie Krause  (2 long turns, 2 short turns)
Fred Albers ( 2 short turns, 2 long turns)
G. Noak (2 long turns, 1 short turn)​ 
Otto Socks (1 short turn, 3 long turns, 1 short turn)
 

# 15. What year did Round Top get a phone system?

    The Farmers Telephone Company for Round Top, Texas was put into use in 1913.
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L to R; Alvin Pochmann, Authur Krause, Arther Fricke,
​H.A. Dipple, Otto Poppe, W.M. Schultze, Walter Rosenberg,
Ernest Fricke, Max Ginzel, Chas Schiege

# 16. What year did Round Top start their fire department?

    The Fire Department for Round Top, Texas was put into use in 1905.
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